[Update: $170 million settlement] FTC to fine Google up to $200 million over kids' privacy problems on YouTube

• Update 1: 2019/09/04 8:35am PDT
  A settlement has been reached, according to which Google and YouTube will pay $170 million to make these allegations go away. $136 million will go to the FTC and $34

YouTube recently faced some controversy over its autoplay function that ultimately ended up in an FTC investigation. Google's algorithmic selection had a bad habit of leading children away from safe, joyful videos and instead would occasionally point them to violent and inappropriate content.

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